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The Fort Milt. Times. 1 I == Established in 1891. FORT MILL, S. C.t THURSDAY, MARCH: 27, 1913. , $1.25 Per Year. HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST > IN STORM-SWEPT NEBRASKA More than 200 persons were killed and 400 were injured in a windstorm that demolished 450 homes, damaged hundreds of other buildings and caused a monetary loss of $5,000,000 according to telegraphic reports available up to a late hour Monday night from the main path of Sunday's tornado in and near Omaha, Nebraska. Most of the casualties were in Omaha. Nearby towns in Nebraska and across the Missouri river in Iowa also suffered severely. Wires were snapped off in all directions and it took many hours to gather and circulate news of the disaster. Fire broke out in the debris of many wrecked buildings in the Nebraska metropolis and these were a menace for some t-: ... .u~ :? nine as 1,11c inr uvmijjcinics were hindered by falling walls and blockaded streets. A heavy rain followed the wind, however, and drenched the hundreds of homeless persons but also put out the flames. Of the 202 known dead within the area covered by the storm 152 were residents of Omaha. The remaining dead are scattered over a considerable range of territory. Perhaps 1.500 persons are' homeless. Aside from this 3,000 buildings were more or less damaged, some of these being churches and school buildings. Eight of Omaha's public schools were wrecked. All forms of communication were almost annihilated by the wind and only two or three wires were in working condition when daylight relieved a night of high tension, which at times almost became a panic. Soldiers. State and National troops, poured into the city during the day to aid in brimrinc order of what for '/>(? hours had been chaos. Two Wrecks Near Winnsboro. Within 24 hours Sunday a short stretch of track on the Southern railway?the 40 miles between Columbia and Adger, a Eoint threcmiles north of Winnsoro?was the scene of two serious train wrecks, one at 6 o'clock Sunday morning and the other at. 7:25 Sunday night, said The State of Monday. In neither accident were there any very serious casualties, so far as could be ascertained. In both the results were the blocking of the track for some hours. The early morning wreck near Columbia fell on No. 36. Four coaches were derailed and two were overturned and badly broken up. In the wreck Sunday night, in which the first section of Southeastern Limited, No. 32, also northbound, was the victim, seven cars left the track, and the passengers were badly shaken up. Kendrick Estate Valued at $15,000. The will of the late Richard G. Kendrick, of Lower Steel Creek, has been filed with the clerk of court of Mecklenburg county. The estate is valued at $15,000. By the provisions of the will Mr. Kendrick's widow, Mrs. Mary Alice Kendrick, will receive $400 and also one-twelfth of the entire estate "in accordance with my marriage compact with her;" rvu \if t n r? T/ \ uau^iaci, r ci i c drick, receives $200; the children of another daughter, Mrs. Emma Sledge, who died since the will was first drafted, receives together two tracts in Steele Creek Township, one containing 45 and the other 4 1-4 acres, to be valued at $20 an acre. A son, Z. V. Kendrick of Charlotte, is bequeathed 60 acres worth $16 an acre; the children of a deceased son, J. F. Kendrick, are willed a tract of land in Steele Creek adjoining the home place of their father, and containing 6 3-4 acres worth $25 an acre. William Gardner; Jr., a grand son, will receive $500 which is left in the care of his father until the age of 21 is reached. The residue of the estate and insurance money is to be divided among the children and the children of the late J. F. Kendrick, all the latter to have one 1 share together. IDENTITY OF DEAD MAN REMAINS A MYSTERY People of the Indian Land section of Lancaster, and especially the Lancaster officials, are very anxious for information that will lead to the identity of a dead man found Thursday afternoon in Twelve-mile creek, near the depot at Osceola. The gruesome find was made by a colored resident of Osceola who had gone tG the creek to attend his fish basket. The negro at once reported his find to the I authorities and on Friday an inquest was held before Magistrate D. K. Hall of Indian Land, the post mortem being made by I I)r. B. B. Sturdevant. The verdict of the jury of inquest was 1 that the stranger had come to his death as a result of blows on the head from a blunt instrument in the hands of parties unknown to the jury. When discovered the dead man was lying on a raft at the edge of the creek about one-half mile from the depot at Osceola. Apparently he was 25 to 30 years of age, black hair and mustache, and all his clothing was gone except his undergarments. The body was badly decomposed, the i opinion of all those who viewed it being that it had been in the water for ten days or longer. The features of the dead man were those of a foreigner, it wa3 stated, but this fact was only guess work owing to decomposition. The undergarments of the man bore no laundry or other marks by which it might be identified. The Lancaster officials are anxious to obtain any information as to who the dead man is and have asked The Times to f request the papers of the surI rounding towns to give notice of trie stranger s aeatn. Government Job for Howard Banks. The morninar papers of Saturday brought the news from Washington that Josephus Danels. the new secretary of the navy, had selected Howard A. Banks, of Hickory, N. C., for his private secretary. Mr. Banks, it is said, will assume his*new duties- within a few days. He | is the owner and editor of the | Hickory Democrat and is one of tne best known newspaper men i of North Carolina. He was | graduated from Davidson college in 1888 and did post graduate work at the University of North Carolina. The announcement that Mr. Banks has been offered and will accept the secretaryship to the secretary of the navy was of much interest to a large number of Fort Mill people. Preparatory to his entry to Davidson college. Mr. Banks attended the Fnrt Mill Academy which at that time was taught by his uncle, Prof. A. R. Banks, now residing in Columbia. He has a large number of relatives residing in this community at present and the announcement that he had accepted the government position was a pleasure to all. In connection with the appointment, it was recalled by one of Mr. Banks' friends here that he began his career as a newspaper man by writing a story from Fort Mill about 20 years ago describing the chase of a bear which was supposed to have wandered to this section from the low country. New Parcel Post Stamp. The design of a new and small er parcel post stamp to replace those now in use has been approved by Postmaster General Burleson. Numerous complaints that the present stamps, all denominations of which are the same color, is hard to distinguish as to value and easily "raised," caused the change. The new design will possess no artistic merit, but bear only a large numeral. The various denominations will be in different colors. Approximately $50,000 yearly will be saved by the smallei stamps, it is estimated. There were no classes at th< Fort Mill public schools Monday, the teachers and children observing the day as Easter Monday. -. - Allen Seems Doomed to Die. Attorneys for Claude Swansoi Allen, under sentence to die to morrow for his part in the Hills ville, Va., courthouse murders left Washington Monday nigh for Richmond, Va. This suddei step is regarded as ending th< endeavors of the attorneys t< procure a writ of error by whicl | the young Allen's convictioi would be reviewed by tin supreme court of the Unitet States. All day Monday the attorney! were conferring in regard t< 1 their course. They acknowledge( that the refusal of Chief Justice White and Justice Hughes t< grant the writ made their cast practically hopeless. Te'lephonh communication during the night j supposedly with ot her member; of the court, are said to hav< increased their despair of savin} i Allen by this means. They sah that they had not called upon cl the justices of the court. The Law of Weights and Measure. At the session of the genera assembly for 1913 the act pro viding for uniform standard o weights and measures was placet upon the statute books of th< Slate. The duty of enforcinj the law has been placed upoi the commissioner of agricultun and the inspectors of the de ; par4ment of agriculture, j "Notice is hereby given to yoi that the active enforcement o j this law will begin immediately,' j says a statement of Commission ; er Watson to the merchants an< manufacturers of the State i Within the next several day; I the rules and regulations regu j lating the enforcement of th< I act will be sent out by the de partment.. "It will be my purpose to ei force this law with all the con sideration possible but at th same time the enforcement wil be active and vigorous. It i earnestly hoped that the depart mcnt will have the hearty co I operation of all merchants am manufacturers. Specific weight and specific measures are tixe< in the law for specific commodi ties and in trade transactions i will be required of all partie i that uiese specific lequiferoerit j be met," said the commissione yesterday. Any person violating the pre visions of the act. shall be deemei guilty of a misdemeanor am upon conviction shall be fined no less than $5 for each offense. Protection for Migratory Birds. To kill a robin or other migra : torv game and insectivorou I bird is no?v an offense agains I the Federal government, th United States by passing th Mclean bill having decreed tha such birds shall be accorded l'u protection at til times. Th irnvprnmonI rflolia/w I . w IVUIKi^O tuc icai it toll that the farmers of thi country pay to bugs and worm that might be destroyed, wer the birds only more numerous and to put a stop to the wholt sale slaughter of the birds tha render the most effective servic along this line, the new law ha been adopted. Heretofore, th | game law has been dallied with and. it is not unreasonable t suppose that thousands of offend ' ers have violated the law an escaped; but with the Unite ! States government behind th law a far different situation wi be presented, and persons wh : take liberties are very likely t get into trouble.?Exchange. Cotton Picker Perfected. i The Pee Dee Advocate says th , Price-Campbell cotton picker ha II been at work near Clio on son* 11 cotton reserved lor the purjx* . of testing an improved device .; which renders it absolutely pel !! fe.ct. Experiments are bein i made to see if it is practical t build a machine light enough ti > be drawn by four mules and se . around $2,000. The present QH . chine weighs 5,500 pounds an runds with a 20 horse powl gasoline motor. i W. T. Clawson, who for aei eral years has been the efficier ; electrician at Winthrop Colleg* , has accepted a position with tli Southern Power Co., and will l| located at Mount Holly, N. C.7 Rock Hill Herald. s / , i DEATH AND DESTRUCTION I - IN WAKE . OF CYCLONE ' ' J. J. Broom, a farmer of Low-, er Fort Mill, met death Friday , 3 in a cyclone which swept the 3 lower section of the township j i about 10:30 o'cl in the morni ing. Mr. Broorn was riding a 2: mule home from the woods J nearby in which he had been at work, when a large pine tree was blown across the road, crushj ing the man and mule and caus, ing the instant death of the ani3 mal, but Mr. Broom lingered for s several hours. r> efpvm /vT A.iv .'VV1 UI ul I' 1 HI.IV IIIUMIing , in which J. J. Broom met death s formed to the southwest of Fort e Mil!, a great funnel-shaped mars. J Eye-witnesses stated that at 1 Carharrt, just across the river 1 , from this place, the cloud diIvided, one-half going east of Fort Mill for a distance of three miles or mory, leaving a path of . demolished Mouses and uprooted 1 trees. The other half swept up " Catawba ri\hr to Wright's ferry * and thence across Lower Steel 1 Creek, Mockjenburg county, and 2 crossed the Southern railroad * tracks near Hebron station. Re1 ports from Steel Creek tell of e several houses being unroofed and otherwise damaged and many trees beingfc twisted off and upj rooted, but.the main part of the , storm seeu>? to have gone to the J south of Aiirt Mill. In that stc" i tion, aside "Jfaom the death of the J man liroofat and his mule, the * i damage b^ the storm amounted s to several thousand dollars. " On the r plantation of VV. B. e White a hbuse. in which the negro tenant had left a tire, was blown down and destroyed by tire. " i The nefkt place struck by the ? ! storm w*s that of J. P. Crowder. 1 The home of Mr. Crowder was s; but slightly damaged, but the barn w;us lifted from its founda ' tion and carried a short distance away. The home of a colored ? woman on the Crowder place was completely demolished and " | the woman herself, although esI caping injury, was lifted with ? the house and carried across the ? j public road into an opposite fieiu. r W. J1 Stewart also came in for a share of the storm's damage, 7 and further on, in the Pleasant ^ Valley section, other houses were I more or less damaged by the cyclone. J. \ Broom, the man killed in Lower. Fort Mill, was about 40 years"of age and is survived by a L_1 wife v\nd six children. s An amusing incident was re,t lated at the plant of the Chare | lotte Brick company at Grattan. e A Western man employed on the t i work s saw the storm approachII ing and crawled under a big e steam shovel, saying: "Here .1 rftPlloe nno /a f t Iwioo fn-iffiviw |.| | V i Hv V/l V/ I I V/Ot I' V> lOLUI O 9 s j boy-a." With apparent uncons ceni he watched "twister" Lear e up the landscape about him. . c m The York county folks are in a 11 dilemma as to where to locate e th(* new court house. Why not 3 put it equidistant between Rock e Hill, Fort Mill and Yorkville? ' Tbis might be a solution of the 0 question, or if this will notsatis^ fy Rock f 1 ill put it an inch or so d rniarer the "Good Town." ?Lanu caster News, e " ONE CENT A WORD G I M 1NIMUM CIIAR(IK. 2f?C. ( FOR SALE About 80 bushels of Ibovidence Yam Seed (Sweet) Potatoes *t $1.2 5 per bushel. J. L. KIMBRELL. e IJL? 8 , EGC.S ? From my pure bred White 0 and Brown Leghorns and Rhode Island 6t Reds at 15 for $1.00. Fawn Indian Runner Iinck eggs at $1.00 per dozen. Vd!'. T. K. MKRRITT. gf , FOR SAI.E I have several pond 0 males that I will sell cheap for cash or ^'lontime. A. It. McELHANEY. ANNOUNCEMENTS. ^ For Magistrate. Jra j I hereby announce myself a candiJfdnte for nomination for the office of | Magistrate of Fort Mill township, subj/L ject to the rules of the Democratit lt party. W. L. HALL. f, I hereby announce myself a candi le date for nomination for tht positior ue of Magistrate of Fort Mill township, subject to party rul >s and the will uJ the Democratic voter < in the approach ' mg primary. It. F. HARRIS. THE NEW SCHOOL LAWS. Of the 256 acts passed by the 1913 session of the General Assembly, 41 of them related to education, 3S of which were purely local. The three new laws of general import were: 1. The act levying a one-mill State tax for schools. 2. The act requiring reports of teachers and school officers and tixing a penalty for neglect, I omission, failure or refusal to j file the usual reports in time. 1 n rtM - - .5. i ne act making kindergartens a part of tho public schoo* system. Folders of these three measures have been sent to the county superintendents of education' lor general distribution. State) Superintendent Swearingen com-! mooting on the acts has this to say: The one-mill State tax has been levied primarily to continue the educational activities already established and heretofore supported from the State dispensary fund. These activities include j appropriations for high schools, ; term exension, rural graded i schools and public libraries. It is to be regretted that the I State building fund, which has I proved an effective stimulus in securing adequate school buildings in many country communities, was not renewed this year. In consequence of the discontinuance of this appropriation, the unpaid building claims for 1912 now on file with the State superintendent an^l the prospective claims in view for 1913 must be | bandied solely by the several county boards of education. I hope it will be possible for paf'li pnnntu ~ ~ W. . . vj >..U|H.1 illUJIHILIll LU extend liberal aid to eyery district board that had planned to j to erect a new school house with State aid, it the State building fund had been renewed. Every teacher should be promptly notified of the new act i requiring reports. The enrollment figures given for each school constitute the legal basis for the apportioning of all school funds. Too much stress, therefore, cannot be laid on prompt, accurate anu complete data 1'rcrr. each teacher, from each school and from each district. f Do You Have ! 4 I n - a. J - J UC 511 UUWI1 ] ment and let us gi ; We take special pa : pair of shoes we j give you a perfec you'll come again. Spring Oxfc The Irving Drei The Ral The "TVo Bett E. W. Kiml i ^ "THE PLACE WHER I i WATSON WILL ENFORCE STATE'S CHILD LABOR LAW "I will h< r.rafter rigidly enforce the child labor laws of this State. Every enterprise, it makes no ditference of what character, will have to immediately disconcontinue employing children under the age limit prohibited by law. If my inspe tors find that the law has been violated, then those disregarding the child labor act \fill be prosecuted." These words were spoken Friday by Col. E. J. Watson, State t commissioner of agriculture comI merce and industries, to a reporter for the Columbia Record. | The act referred to by Colonel ! Watson prohibits the employment of children in any commercial, textile or other establishment under the age <>i" 12 years. From the ages of 12 to 14 years children may be employed, but only upon the written permission of Colonel Watson. The campaign |against the violation of the child labor law has already begun, and the inspectors have found some who v er^ employing children under tno legal ago. The New Nickel. ? We have had the pleasure of t eeing a few of the new five-cent pieces, and from a newspaper standpoint they are a failure at beauty. While they will buy as much as the old one they are not calculated to take a prize at a baby show, or any other show. They are a right good thing to have around the house for the housewife to buy ice, milk and vegetables, and we might add to drop in the collection plate on Sunday, hut as far as we are concerned, give us the old style, and we will call you a friend 1 indeed.?Sumter Herald. _ A rumor from Gaffney has it that Mr. T. B. Butler, who is well known in Fort Mill, will in a few davs announce his r>;mr1i_ dacy for lieutenant governor in the next State election. Mr. Butler is well known throughout the State, and particularly in the Fifth district, having in two former campaigns made the race for Congress from the Fifth district. Shoe Trouble in our Shoe departve you a perfect fit. iins in fitting every sell, because if we tly comfortable fit, ^ irds Just in xs, stons, i Fellowcraft, A IIC LsCllUJL. er Made." jrell Comp'y E QUALITY COUNTS." 9 . 1 :j